Best Provoked Quotes
76 Provoked quotes by 68 unique authors
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I was walking late one night along a tree-lined path; a chestnut fell at my feet. The noise it made as it burst, the resonance…
— Emile M. Cioran
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I heard police or ambulancemen, standing in our house, say, 'She must have provoked him,' or, 'Mrs Stewart, it takes two to make a fight.'…
— Patrick Stewart
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Perhaps more than any other disease before or since, syphilis in early modern Europe provoked the kind of widespread moral panic that AIDS revived when…
— Peter Lewis Allen
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God and the Gay Christian is a game changer. Prepare to be challenged and enlightened, provoked and inspired.
— Rachel Held Evans
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I have yet to see a serious act of violence that was not provoked by the experience of feeling shamed and humiliated, disrespected and ridiculed,…
— James Gilligan
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My driver Kellie Frost and I would race these fellows home and they were always faster on the highway. We did the same with Daniel…
— Madeleine Stowe
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Ladies ...any man that lusts after you will answer to God for his mental adultery...but you will answer to God if you provoked him by…
— Albert Martin
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Be prepared to be enlightened, enraged, amused, engaged, and above all provoked.
— Beatrix Campbell
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There were reprints of American editorials. Liberals saw it as a resurgence of social protest and decried the discrimination, poverty, and hunger that had provoked…
— Dan Simmons
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Friends provoked become the bitterest of enemies.
— Baltasar Gracian
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Never hide things from hardcore thinkers. They get more aggravated, more provoked by confusion than the most painful truths.
— Criss Jami
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It is difficult to describe in short the enthusiasm and devotion provoked by and given to my research. We lived almost in poverty. I used…
— Immanuel Velikovsky
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A poet feels the impulse to create a work of art when the passive awe provoked by an event is transformed into a desire to…
— Wystan Hugh Auden
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A good many times I have been present at gatherings of people who, by the standards of the traditional culture, are thought highly educated and…
— Carrie P Snow
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As a general rule, I abstain from reading reports of attacks upon myself, wishing not to be provoked by that to which I cannot properly…
— Abraham Lincoln
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Where and when have riots and anarchy been provoked by wise measures? If the government had acted wisely, and if their measures had met the…
— Vladimir Lenin
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As individuals die every moment, how insensitive and fabricated a love it is to set aside a day from selfish routine in prideful, patriotic commemoration…
— Criss Jami
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Fiction has always evoked pictures and provoked ideas and sounds in my mind.
— Vernon Reid
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The love of one's own sex is precious, for it is neither provoked by vanity nor retained by flattery; it is genuine and sincere.
— Maria Mitchell
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Whoever has provoked men to rage against him has always gained a party in his favor, too.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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Researching 'Lone Wolf,' I was amazed at how thoughtful and intelligent these animals are. There has never been a documented attack against a human by…
— Jodi Picoult
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Anyone nit-picking enough to write a letter of correction to an editor doubtless deserves the error that provoked it.
— Alvin Toffler
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I do not think you are in any danger of starving," Maximus said. "The surgeon said only two weeks ago that you are too fat."…
— Naomi Novik
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I ask myself how I could give in to this perpetual vertigo that I in fact provoked and feared. I floated among erratic clouds and…
— Gabriel Garcia Marquez
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I love reading another reader’s list of favorites. Even when I find I do not share their tastes or predilections, I am provoked to compare,…
— Thomas Stearns Eliot
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